and so it begins.

i am made of blue sky and hard rock and i will live this way forever.

[tchaikovskaya]

[vintagewildlife]

Domestic canaries By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[robert-hadley]

The World of Interiors, November 1996. Photo - Andreas von Einsiedel

[damnesdelamer]

[opencommunion]

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

[lena-oleanderson]

love & friendship - collected writings from side wounds and other poems

[metamorphesque]

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

[metamorphesque]

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

[a-study-in-bullshit]

"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

[retreat-to-your-mood]

[septemberkisses]

Something about Oranges and love 🍊

— I peel an orange, and I give you half. In the time it took to separate it, I fell in love with you again.

Excerpt Sources:

Golden Girl by Frank Ocean • Oranges on a plate • The Orange by Wendy Cope • Tumblr post • Oranges by Jean Little • Clementines • I love you • Tumblr Post • The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines by Alessia Di Cesare

[lucidloving]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

[lelif]

On Love and Community

@princes-heels // ? // @inkskinned // mitski, my love mine all mine//@littlespoonsokka // @boymiffy // @2aminhouston // ? // @theviralwitch // @noodle // @criterioncollectiongirl // @fatsoupy // ? // @mjalti // george saunders, congratulations, by the way// @jb-blunk // @ponchopeligroso // @headspace-hotel // everything, everywhere, all at once(2022) //@cheruib // ? // ? // @tordenvejr

[literature-is-my-utopia]

Samih al Qasim

[wovi]

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hanif abdurraqib

[firstfullmoon]

José Olivarez, “Let’s Get Married”

[toomanyrats]

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

[sweatermuppet]

second quote is mine

[poetarchy]

Palestinian students sit next to the empty seats of their martyred classmates. 

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

الله يحرق الاحتلال